Week round-up

February 24th, 2006

Man, this week has flown past me. I’ve had so much stuff to do it’s hard to imagine. I just got back from work and it’s 7pm. I’ve got some good news that have made me work a bit harder than normal. Our paper that we did for Journal of Interactive Advertising was conditionally accepted into the word-of-mouth special issue! We’ve had to do some revisions and clarifications to the text, let’s hope it gets published - that would give me my first academic publication.

Also in the news this week (short clips, haven’t simply had the time to blog about these):

• The Futurice guys have struck a deal with the largest commercial television network MTV3 with their discrete photosharing service Kuvaboxi. Kuvaboxi seems to be now an official part of MTV3 offerings. Congrats!

  How do I know them? I did my Master’s thesis in close co-operation with these guys.

• Ex-CEO of Nokia, Mr. Isokallio, launches the first open WiFi in Helsinki center in co-operation with Fujitsu and a restaurant chain (source - in Finnish). With this he wants to show that it does not require a lot of money to operate a ubiquitous WiFi network, but more a will to do so. This is something I’ve been ranting about previously quite a bit - for example; here, here, here, here, here and here. Man, talk about being obsessed about WiFi :) Anyhow, my point is: Pity the fools who don’t see the value in this and a big thank you to Mr. Isokallio for doing something about it!
• The head of US copyright office has actually said that the current copyright term is too long! Is this the beginning of the end to large media companies bullying consumers?

Oh, and the Finnish Curling team is in the Olympic finals playing at the moment…

Feel free to read on with some related posts:

1. WiFi and innovation
2. Connecting the two networks
3. Apalling organisational culture
4. On WiFi
5. Always use protection

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